This showcase is a celebration of some of the most talented young filmmakers to emerge from the University of East London’s BA Film, BA Animation and Illustration and MA Filmmaking programmes.

This is a richly diverse programme ranging from darkly surreal and visually spectacular fictions, to poignant documentaries (covering subject as varied as the Spanish Civil War and contemporary sexuality), to innovative and eye-catching animations. There will be an opportunity to speak with the filmmakers and a great chance to find out about the exciting developments in Film at the East End Film Festival’s principal partner, the University of East London.

From changing room showdowns to clandestine encounters and societal repression, sometimes it takes a little longer to tell your tale…

THE BALLAD OF ELLA PLUMMHOFF
Dir: Barbara Kronenberg
Germany | 29 min
While the 8th grader Ella faces a decisive exam, she dreams from last summer: love lessons of her grotesque ballet teacher, her first kiss, and permanently annoying parents.

NIGHTSTAND
Dir: Charlie Parham
UK | 26 minNightstand stages the destructive relationship between two men over three consecutive nights— one is gay, lost and adolescent, the other is married to a woman and middle-aged.

COLOURS
Dir: Peter Lee Scott
UK | 25 minColours shows how Adam’s (17) world is turned upside-down when he and two other football team-mates, Mike and Alex, discover Adam’s best friend Tom is gay.

Bespoke festival ‘bolt-on’ New Queer Visions returns, this time with an exciting residence at the East End Film Festival at the Miranda. A feast of LGBTQ films from across the globe, celebrating characters coming in from the edge—to challenge perceptions, excite senses and invert the discourse. Come and be a part of the action.

PEACOCK
Dir: Ondrej Hudecek

UP ON THE ROOF
Dir: Damiá Serra Cauchetiez

MADDY
Dir: Devon Kirkpatrick

DINNER CONFESSION
Dir: Chih-Jen Lin

THE GAY BOMBAY TALENT SHOW
Dir: Ashish Sawhny

11 LIFE LESSONS FROM AN AWESOME OLD DYKE
Dir: Allison Khoury

BALCONY
Dir: Toby Fell-Holden

DAWN
Dir: Jake Graf

DESIRE (WORK IN PROGRESS SCREENING)
Dir: Campbell X

Followed by Q&A with directors.BUY TICKETS – A percentage of ticket sales will be donated to The Gay Bombay Group.

A celebration of the most thrilling and invigorating up and coming talent from Tower Hamlets, this selection of shorts encapsulates everything that we love about the most vibrant and diverse borough of London.

Exploring such topics as political correctness, modern art, the rise of the EDL and the sexualisation of pop culture, these films form a compelling, hilarious and at times disturbing state-of-the-nation snapshot.

The Chop’ is a comedy about Yossi, a charismatic Kosher butcher who loses his job, cannot find work at other Kosher butchers, and therefore decides to pretend to be Muslim in order to get work at a Halal butchers.

Kill it 4 the Kids
UK | Christopher Ullens de Schooten | 3 min

A cute and colourful handmade town sees the arrival and consequences of capitalism hit the town in bold and comic stop-motion animated footage synced on ‘Kill it 4 the Kids’!

Three white hipsters decide to run an Afrobeats night in London. But when two become obsessed with getting at least one black person to attend, the third begins to suspect the whole thing might be racist.

Wax
UK | Vasilisa Forbes | 4 min

Teaming the incredible force of the popular lyrics when set against the sexualised, objectified imagery, the question of our acceptance of tones of dialogue, pornography and the impact of popular culture are raised.

A Short Guide To Re-Entry
UK | Anwar Boulifa | 15 min

Khalid is released from prison. He’s told that he wants a job and a place in the community, but fitting into the system isn’t always that easy.

Underneath the Noise
UK | Jon E Price | 8 min

Basketball can give hope and focus to those who might otherwise have neither – but its future hangs in the balance. Starring players from North & East London and featuring poet James Massiah, Underneath the Noise celebrates Britain’s raw talent and gives a voice to young ball players.

Nipplejesus
UK | Jake Lushington | 16 min

A bouncer finds out that guarding modern art is just as hazardous as controlling the ropes at a nightclub.

Jade Dragon
UK | Joseph Brett | 9 min

If you thought Exodus was accurately cast and that Aloha was too ethnically diverse, this might not be the film for you.

Patriot
UK | Eva Riley | 15 min

Against the backdrop of simmering racial tensions within a rural English community, the life of eleven year old Hannah changes forever when she meets a boy from a forbidden part of town.

From the ‘impotence’ of a police marksman to a deranged primal scream therapy session, these films probe, poke and prick at the inflated egos, the tribalism and the inherent paranoia of masculine one-upmanship.

Alpha Beta
UK | Tom Hemmings | 10 min

Lenny, a man in an extremely macho job – police marksman – has never discharged his weapon away from the firing range. But, he has bigger problems… He’s stopped firing his weapon at home and Martin, his alpha partner reckons a hunting trip is what’s needed to man Lenny up.

When a stockbroker hires a rough builder to renovate the wine cellar beneath his country home, the two men fall out with violent consequences.

dark_net
UK | Tom Marshall | 13 min

Welcome to dark_net!

Dilip’s Castle
UK | Manos Ioannou | 19 min

Dilip’s Castle is the story of Sidney. He runs away from home after he finds out that his wife had an affair. Already on a destructive path, with a rapacious thirst for alcohol, he treads through the night and he discovers that what lurks in the dark is far worse than infidelity.

An electrician answers a call-out in the dead of night and is drawn into the bizarre and melancholy world of a man haunted by Christmas. Can he fix the lights, or is the darkness in the house best left alone?

All’s Well
UK | Christian Kinde | 13 min

All’s Well a short film about a soldier returning from Afghanistan.

SK-Sonderkommando
Italy | Nicola Ragone | 19 min

A train, a trip, a destination.Two strangers start to look each other while travelling in a couch of a train.Cold, pain, farewell. Arrived at the destination one of them is chosen to be a labourer of the Death in a Nazi concentration camp, a Sonderkommando.

Whisper
UK | Jo Lewis | 11 min

A young woman travels to a remote beach side cabin in an attempt to finally quit her heroin habit.

Ribbon
UK | Dean Anderson | 7 min

A mother struggling to come to terms with the recent death of her teenage son, becomes fixated with a local boy due to his uncanny resemblance.

Drift is a Southern Gothic for the Britain of austerity and UKIP. It depicts the trafficking of vulnerable homeless immigrants for forced labour and is inspired by a case which came to court in Luton in 2012. It is about agency and how we can come to accept the unacceptable.

JUS SOLI
UK | somebody nobody | 15 min

JUS SOLI opens up a discourse on the Black British experience; interrupting the emotional transition between generations and questioning what it means to be British.

Whether it be the monotonous passing of a day spent under house arrest, the adrenaline fueled pace of an emergency services operator, or the minute-by-minute stretch before a possible suicide, this diverse selection of films explores the relativity of time in all its ephemeral ambiguity.

Seven Days a Week
UK | Tal Amiran | 10 min

From his paper stall, Paul’s watched the world around him change – seven days a week, for 36 years.

Two Windows
Germany | Tim Ellrich | 10 min

Two neighbors jump into an unexpected friendship outside their windows.

Djado Ivan
Germany | Silke Meya | 20 min

The 70 year old ‘Djado Ivan’ lives in Grivitsa, a small bulgarian town close to the romanian border. In close communion with nature and his many animals, he spends his life on his small farm and thereby maintains his very own rhythm of life.

The Backgarden Meteorologist
UK| Emily Cussins | 5 min

A glimpse into the world and mindset of a man who can predict the weather, six months ahead, by simply looking at nature.

House Arrest
Switzerland | Matthias Sahli | 13 min

Hausarrest tells the story of Max, who was sentenced to six months of house arrest. An electronic ankle bracelet called Percy helps him trough his new daily life.One day Max is shocked to discover how far Percy is willing to go to assist him in his needs.

Operator
UK | Caroline Bartleet | 6 min

Gemma wakes to find her house on fire. Trapped with her son, she dials 999. The operator who answers holds Gemma’s life in her hands.

Footprints On The Moon
UK | Serkan Nihat | 9 min

Footprints On The moon is a day in the life/fly on the wall film centred around a group of wonderful elderly Turkish Cypriots living in North London.

Stolpe Nord
Germany | Julia Tielke | 15 min

The last day of a journey, a young couple has spent the night at a service area on the autobahn. While an ordinary day passes, the two travellers are brushing their teeth, take down their tent and ask people for a ride. Something unspoken sizzles beneath the surface.